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Re:Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving do... by hedora on Sunday July 09, 2017 @10:46AM (#14729948)
This reminds me of "power of two" balls and bins, which is useful for load balancing. Throwing work onto a random machine doesn't work well. Picking two random machines, and throwing the work on to the less loaded machine is asymptotically better.

I think you'd see something very similar with this type of simulation.

Re:Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving do... by SlySherZ on Monday July 10, 2017 @08:39AM (#14735347)
I've tried this and the distribution stays pretty close to constant. You can check it out, just comment line 13 and uncomment 15-18: https://www.khanacademy.org/computer-programming/yet-another...
Re:Counterintuitive problem: People in a room keep giving do... by vinchuco on Sunday July 09, 2017 @05:40PM (#14731839)
It makes sense intuitively: one bit of information (i.e. which machine to assign work to) splits the space into two options and you pick the better one at every comparison